Lanre Bakare

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Today in Focus · Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

But because he signed NDAs, he couldn't identify any of these people.

Yeah, so Seven Up is a kind of groundbreaking, truly legendary British documentary series in which a filmmaker followed a series of kids and met them every seven years and basically charted their life and how it developed.

It is iconic.

People of a certain generation know this show inside out.

And I think, really importantly, with that claim, Jason wasn't born by the time that the TV show started.

So that claim will have been impossible.

Yes.

So Arday was born in 1985, but he subsequently claimed that he was talking about a programme, not a television programme.

And there is some suggestion that it's a community programme that was carried out in South London where he grew up and that actually wasn't talking about the documentary series.

Yes, so Professor Ade's backstory is completely remarkable.

And obviously the fact that some of these other claims that have come later have been proven to not be completely accurate, there are lingering questions about that backstory and whether or not that is true.

I think if those doubts are confirmed, I just think it puts this story in a completely different area.

Because it's worth pointing out, Jason is a source of inspiration to thousands of families who have autistic children and non-verbal children and look at Jason and think, wow.

this is what could be possible.

Here's this young lad who's come from South London with these extraordinary hurdles in front of him and he's managed to overcome them and make it in life and do well.

I mean, at one point, Jason claims that his parents were told that he'd have to live in assisted living for the rest of his life.

So the fact he's overcome this is a source of inspiration.

But obviously, now people have doubts about every element of his story.

So Arday was adamant that he hadn't made any of these claims up, that they're all solid, that he had an explanation for everything.

And he also said, I think rather tellingly, that he just thought that I'd believe him.

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